GBDE not protecting the user

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:30:08AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:58:42 -0400
> "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com> wrote:
> 
> > [Tried questions@, no answer, and the code contains things I just
> > cannot trigger.]
> > 
> just try geli. It works for me. What I like most is that you can have
> key and password on external media. No external media - no decyphering.

GELI does not verify key destruction when the correct passphrase is
used. There are use cases where this is very important--e.g., finance.

I'd really like to include GBDE in my FreeBSD storage book, but it
seems that it doesn't actually work.

==ml

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